These pages discuss using Datadog's UI to monitor containers and clusters, track resource utilization, autoscale workloads, and remediate issues:

Containers Explorer: Use and configure Containers Explorer for real-time visibility into your containers. Container Images Explorer: Use and configure Containers Images Explorer to monitor the container Kubernetes Explorer: Use the Kubernetes Explorer page to monitor your Kubernetes resources. Configure Kubernetes Explorer: Configure the Kubernetes Explorer page. Kubernetes Resource Utilization: Using and configuring the Kubernetes Resource Utilization page Kubernetes Autoscaling: Using and configuring Kubernetes Autoscaling Kubernetes Remediation: Using and configuring the Kubernetes Remediation page Amazon ECS Explorer: Using and configuring the ECS Explorer page

These pages discuss installing and configuring the Datadog Agent in a Docker-based environment (Docker, containerd, and Podman):

Datadog Docker Agent: Install and configure the Datadog Docker Agent for Docker, containerd, and Podman runtimes APM: Configure APM trace collection for applications running in Docker containers using the Datadog Agent Log collection: Configure log collection for applications running in Docker containers using the Datadog Agent Tag extraction: Configure automatic tag extraction from Docker container labels and environment variables Integrations: Configure monitoring integrations for applications running in Docker containers using Autodiscovery Prometheus: Collect Prometheus and OpenMetrics metrics from containerized Docker applications using the Datadog Agent Data Collected: Reference guide for metrics and events collected by the Datadog Agent from Docker containers

These pages discuss installing and configuring the Datadog Agent in a Kubernetes environment:

Kubernetes: Install and configure the Datadog Agent on Kubernetes Installation: Install and configure the Datadog Agent on Kubernetes using the Datadog Operator, Helm, or kubectl Further Configuration: Additional configuration options for APM, logs, processes, events, and other capabilities after installing the Datadog Agent Distributions: Platform-specific installation and configuration instructions for Datadog Agent on various Kubernetes distributions APM: Enable APM trace collection for containerized applications running in Kubernetes environments App and API Protection: Automatically enable App and API Protection for your Kubernetes ingress proxies and gateways Log collection: Configure log collection from containerized applications running on Kubernetes using the Datadog Agent Tag extraction: Configure automatic tag extraction from Kubernetes pod labels and annotations for enhanced monitoring Integrations: Configure monitoring integrations for applications running in Kubernetes using Autodiscovery templates Prometheus & OpenMetrics: Collect Prometheus and OpenMetrics from Kubernetes workloads using the Datadog Agent with Autodiscovery Control plane monitoring: Monitor Kubernetes control plane components including API server, etcd, controller manager, and scheduler Data collected: Reference guide for metrics and events collected by the Datadog Agent from Kubernetes clusters kubectl Plugin: The kubectl plugin for the Datadog Operator, which provides a set of helper utilities that give visibility into certain internal components. Datadog CSI Driver: Observability for secure Kubernetes environments using the Datadog CSI Driver Data security: Information about the security of Kubernetes data sent to Datadog

These pages discuss the Datadog Cluster Agent and Datadog Operator:

Cluster Agent for Kubernetes: Centralized approach to collecting cluster-level monitoring data with the Datadog Cluster Agent Datadog Operator: Deploy and manage the Datadog Agent on Kubernetes using the Datadog Operator

These pages discuss installing and configuring the Datadog Agent on Amazon ECS:

Amazon ECS: Install and configure the Datadog Agent on Amazon Elastic Container Service Tracing ECS Applications: Configure APM trace collection for containerized applications running on Amazon ECS Log collection: Configure log collection from containerized applications running on Amazon ECS using the Datadog Agent Tag extraction: Configure automatic tag extraction from container labels and environment variables in Amazon ECS Data collection: Reference guide for metrics, logs, and events collected by the Datadog Agent on Amazon ECS Managed Instances: Install and configure the Datadog Agent on Amazon ECS Managed Instances AWS Fargate with ECS: Monitor AWS Fargate for Amazon ECS

Additional helpful documentation, links, and articles:

Container Troubleshooting: Troubleshooting containers-related issues Container Guides: List of guides for container monitoring setup and configuration

Additional helpful documentation, links, and articles:

Datadog's Annual State of Containers ReportDATADOG RESEARCH